• Brooklyn couple gets engaged on Gowanus Canal

    Brooklyn couple gets engaged on Gowanus Canal

    They found love in the muck. Despite its notorious reputation for being a polluted pool of stagnant filth, the Gowanus Canal was recently the site of a marriage proposal — and she said yes. Gowanus residents Emma Borochoff, 30, and Jamison Pence, 32, have been dating for three-and-a-half years, lived in the neighborhood for two, …